* Dynamic fares are not new to and not a big deal for Railways which have already introduced dynamite fares which have more or less bombed even when applied to the premium trains which normally operating from Metro cities.
* just .35% Premium train paxs give 13-14% of total pax revenue, i.e. avg a premium train pax pay 40 times the avg train pax and IR is hell bent to kill this goose laying golden eggs since decades!!
* It is a good political proposition to give heavily subsidised travel (non...
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ac travel) to 95% vote bank as 5% premium pax are electorally insignificant. But there is a limit to it which probably has already been crossed. If squeezed too hard, the juice shall go to the airlines & luxury bus/taxi operators leaving IR high & dry.